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Author:

Winkler, Amanda Eubanks.

Title:

O let us howle some heavy note : music for witches, the melancholic, and the mad on the seventeenth-century English stage / Amanda Eubanks Winkler.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 232 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Dramatic music--England--17th century--History and criticism.
Operas--England--Characters.
Theater--England--History--17th century.
Purcell, Henry,--1659-1695.--Dido and Aeneas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.

Contents:

Music and the macrocosm : disorder and history -- "Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more" -- "Remember me, but ah, forget my fate" -- "O let us howle some heavy note" -- Disorder in the eighteenth century.

ISBN:

0253348056
9780253348050
9780253348050 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253348056 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006008072

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)